MOSIER MAYOR Andrea Rogers (far right) and former Mosier City Councilor Kathy Fitzpatrick (second from right), listen to Kate McBride discuss plans to construct the trail on the Mosier Plateau in February 2011. Friends Executive Director Kevin Gorman is in the red jacket.

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In 2007, a year before she passed away, Friends of the Columbia Gorge Founder Nancy Russell purchased a 42-acre parcel of land east of Mosier overlooking the Gorge and donated it to the nonprofit she helped form nearly 30 years prior.